New Intrepid upgrade killed all my sound

Cybe R. Wizard cybe_r_wizard at earthlink.net
Mon Nov 3 23:59:18 UTC 2008


Nigel Henry <cave.dnb2m97pp at aliceadsl.fr>  said:

Sorry for the late reply.  Life, you know..

> It may be worth temporarily disabling 
> it with an apt-get remove alsa-plugins-pulseaudio,

Sadly, that is not found in my repositories.  Is there a special one I
should enable?  I have Main, Universe, Restricted and Multiverse and
third party repo http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu intrepid partner.

> which will mean
> that your sound apps now access Alsa directly. I'm presuming that
> Intrepid has Pulseaudio installed as default.
> 
> Can you post a bit of output from the following, just to see if the
> card is detected, etc.
> 
> cat /proc/asound/cards
 0 [Intel          ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
                      HDA Intel at 0xfebfc000 irq 16

> cat /proc/asound/version
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.17.

> lspci -v  (just the bit for the soundcard)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High
Definition Audio Controller (rev 01) Flags: bus master, fast devsel,
latency 0, IRQ 16 Memory at febfc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable)
[size=16K] Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
	Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

> lsmod | grep snd
snd_hda_intel         381488  3 
snd_pcm_oss            46848  0 
snd_mixer_oss          22784  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                83204  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_dummy          10884  0 
snd_seq_oss            38528  0 
snd_seq_midi           14336  0 
snd_rawmidi            29824  1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event     15232  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq                57776  6
snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer              29960  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq snd_seq_device
15116  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd                    63268  15
snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore              15328  1 snd snd_page_alloc         16136  2
snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
> 
> Nigel.

Thanks for your offer to  help.  If I get this figured out I then have
to get sound scoped out for Elder Daughter's newly upgraded Hardy Heron.

Cybe R. Wizard
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